Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Strauss, Strauß
or Straus is a typical Germanic surname. Outside Germany and Austria
Strauß is constantly spelled Strauss. The families utilizing the
Strauss name speak to a hereditarily changed gathering of individuals
of both Jewish and Germanic inception. The name has been utilized by
families as a part of the Germanic range for at any rate a thousand
years. The overlord of Gröna for instance, passed by the name of
Struz and utilized the picture of an ostrich as his image.
Illustrations of it could at present be seen on the thousand-year-old
church chime of that town. "Struz" or "Strutz" is
the North-German type of the saying "Strauss", which is the
current German word for an "Ostrich". A percentage of the
most punctual Jewish bearers of the name hailed from the Judengasse
in medieval Frankfurt, where families have been known by the name of
the houses they inhabited.all the houses had names and these included
Haus Strauss, complete with a picture of an ostrich on the veneer. At
the point when, for expense purposes, Napoleon made surnames
compulsory in 1808, some more Jewish families chose to embrace the
Straus(s) name.